ClipBlast! took the wraps off this new Playbox, “a detached, cross-platform viewer frame that can play video from sources across the Video Web. This patent-pending technology gives viewers a universal way to search, discover, watch and interact with video, while offering content providers new audiences and new revenue opportunities.”

Major television producers like CBS, ESPN, BBC, HBO, Comedy Central, AMC, PBS, Turner Classic Movies, IFC and National Geographic stand to benefit from Playbox by gaining broader distribution of their programming, as do video hosting platforms such as YouTube, Blip.tv, Metacafe, Veoh, Daily Motion and ClipSyndicate. These and thousands of other video content providers are automatically Playbox-compliant.

Apparently the widget Playbox is launched so users can watch, save and send videos; expand to full screen; see other video recommendations; and continue to scroll through web page content while the video plays — without ever leaving the site. Meanwhile, if you’re searching for video from Lonely Planet TV.. here’s a bunch.

• Posted: April 30, 2008 | Filed: Channels |

Selling real estate with web video. Real estate agents and brokers are teaming up with video producers on WellcomeMat.com to demonstrate the most dynamic means for showcasing a property online. Whereas slideshows and photos are limited in their ability to capture the emotions of buyers and renters, web video enables viewers to get a much more comprehensive and inviting peek into a potential home. WellcomeMat.com highlights the top five new videos of the week to support the many agents, brokers and video producers helping to re-define the real estate buying and selling experience.

• Posted: April 25, 2008 | Filed: Channels, Video Ads |

Just imagine.. pacing like a caged lion, this time-lapse security footage of a man trapped in a lift for 41 hours — almost a decade ago — has become the latest internet hit. according to the Sydney Morning Herald. Almost 300,000 people have viewed the ordeal of Nicholas White, a production manager for Business Week who was trapped in the New York elevator in October 1999.

The video was posted online to accompany an article in the April 21 edition of The New Yorker magazine. White sued the building managers and the lift maintenance company and won an undisclosed settlement, the article said.

Wonder what other treats from the time-machine will start flooding online?

• Posted: April 22, 2008 | Filed: Editors Choice |

If this shopping channel marketing speak doesn’t turn your stomach.. then we’re just not trying hard enough.. who writes this crap anyway?

Strap Yourself In Real Tight Because Our Proprietary New Software Is Going To Catapult You Directly Into The Magical And Amazingly Profitable World Of Internet Video!!

But wait! There’s more.. if you buy now..

STOP.. you’re huuurrrrting me.. +_+

• Posted: April 21, 2008 | Filed: Video Ads |

Enhancing the experience of the live blogTV platform is now available with a set of new features and improvements. BlogTV’s new personal profile pages enable users to style their own backgrounds, add photos, customize their own show banner and embed widgets. This means that our growing community of musicians, for example, can package up their live performances, recorded shows, personal style and display and sell their own music via mp3 widgets, all in one place.

Among the new web-celebrity personas you will be able to see the famous iJUSTINE. Justine “iJustine” Ezarik made global headlines last summer when she received a 100-page phone bill as a result of using her iPhone to send more than 30,000 text messages. Ezarik’s video of the event was seen by millions online and on television, leading to a change in the way iPhone customers are billed. An additional talent in the new season is Christine Gambito (aka HappySlip). HappySlip is one of the Web’s biggest and brightest stars. She currently ranks as Youtube’s #5 Most Subscribed to Artist of All-Time. In peak months, Christine’s website HappySlip.com has attracted 306,600 unique visits with 758,908 page views.

Huh.. we didn’t know there was such a thing as web video ’seasons’..?!?

• Posted: April 18, 2008 | Filed: Channels, Vlogging |

Vobile has announced the release of VideoDNA Live, during the NAB tradeshow this week, which is described as an advanced video DRM solution specifically designed for live broadcast events such as the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. The service offers broadcasters and rights holders real-time digital fingerprinting, fully automated identification, tracking and monetization of live media content on the Web. This service allows content owners, broadcasters and content distributors to identify and track unauthorized uploads of broadcast content within minutes of the event taking place.

“Due to the widespread increase of Internet video distribution platforms, the 2008 Beijing Olympic will be the first digital Olympic Games in history. Rights Holding Broadcasters (RHB’s) are facing new challenges to protect their investments, which require new technical solutions for effective rights management,” said a spokesperson for CCTV.com, the official Internet and mobile phone Rights Holding Broadcaster of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. “We are very pleased with the results of our pilot project completed with Vobile’s VideoDNA Live. The full-scale deployment of VideoDNA Live will help stop illegal use of our live broadcast content and protect our investment and our distribution partners’ commercial interest.”

DRM for China.. oh the irony of it all..

• Posted: April 16, 2008 | Filed: Events |

The maniaTV Network has announced an extensive partnership with Guerilla Hollywood, a full service production company whose television credits include work for Warner Bros. Records, MTV, Fuse TV, as well as dozens of top musical acts and movie studios. Under the terms of the agreement, Guerilla Hollywood founders Devin Boddie (Producer) and Michael Mihail (Director), along with Mike Jones (Director of Photography) and Craig Wenaweser (Editor), have joined the fulltime staff at maniaTV’s new LA Studio. They will direct and produce maniaTV’s existing web TV hits such as Dave Navarro’s Spread Entertainment and Arcade, as well as jointly develop new television shows for maniaTV’s monthly audience of eight million 13-34 year olds.

• Posted: April 15, 2008 | Filed: Channels, Vlogging |

The Mogulus web video platform gives producers everything they need to launch their own LIVE 24/7 television station. The free, ad-supported service, launched in November 2007, has already helped more than 50,000 producers launch their own Internet television stations, streaming more than 100 million unique viewer minutes every month.

Whether you want to turn existing video on-demand content into a 24/7 linear TV station on the Internet or produce live multi-camera events with broadcast graphics – the Mogulus Studio provides the complete solution in an easy to use collaborative web browser based application. The Mogulus solution is touted to be integrated at the core of the service providing a turnkey scalable content delivery network for Flash technology based, linear, on-demand, and live broadcasting.

Sign me up.. looks waaaay sweet!

• Posted: April 14, 2008 | Filed: Editors Choice |

Go Daddy’s CEO and founder recently unveiled his latest venture, not your average corporate communication, or a typical canned PR message. Nope, www.BobParsons.tv is an in-your-face, tell-it-like-it-is video blog used to speak directly to customers, employees and even the media. It’s blunt, it’s unvarnished, even irreverent – and it’s out there for anyone to see.

Few business leaders provide transparent messages or understand the importance of embracing new technology. Some critics have questioned the wisdom of letting an executive speak off the cuff and PR professionals might scoff at publishing an unfiltered message – but Parsons sees true value in putting his views ‘on the record.’

ummm.. Yikes!

• Posted: April 12, 2008 | Filed: Channels, Vlogging |

SchoolTube provides students and educators a safe, world class, and free media sharing website that is nationally endorsed by premier education associations. All student created materials on SchoolTube must be approved by registered teachers, follow local school guidelines, and adhere to our high standards. SchoolTube’s partnership with The Student Television Network leverages a nationwide network of broadcast journalism teachers and students who share their expertise with each other in an effort to create quality student videos of all types. Through this innovative private/public partnership, SchoolTube provides up-to-date information to SchoolTube members at the click of a mouse.

Google says.. “damn.. we can’t exactly order then to cease & desist”

• Posted: April 11, 2008 | Filed: Channels, Editors Choice |